Turn on the deicers.

[gharper]

[Tom/CalClassic]

Nice job. Heading up to Alaska.

[daypharris]

Really nice paintjob on this one Gary! What time-period did Pacific Northern Airliners use the Dc-4? Downloaded, and wondering to try the paint in C-54/DC-4 JBK3 Ops Procedures..
I did find a picture on the web dated ca 1956

Regards
Dag (daypharris)

[Tom/CalClassic]

Hi,

This USAF C-54A was immediately transferred to the Navy in 1944, sold to PNA in 1946, and sold to Reeve Aleutian in 1959. It then went to Air Guinee in 1963, and WFU in 1966.

They started flying between Anchorage and Seattle in 1947.

Here is a DC-4 flight in 1958, I believe the last year they used any DC-4s in scheduled service:

www.timetableimages.com/ttimages/complete/pn58/pn58-2.jpg

By 1959 it was operated with a Connie.

A picture circa 1956:

delta.pastperfectonline.com/photo/6428D302-89CE-44DF-A14E-389782773637

I don't see any pictures of DC-4s in the later paint job, so I assume they had this livery until 1958?

[gharper]

Not a big deal but a larger image shows the N number as N41341. Thanks for downloading!

Gary

[Tom/CalClassic]

Yes, that is the correct N-number for my history above (and the number you painted on the tail). They had at least one other DC-4, N3934C, c/n 27243, which PNA owned from 1951 through 1962.

[Herman]

Very nice representation of the DC-4.

Herman

[Dennis the menace]

Be sure you update the new air file for the DC-4, otherwise you may not have any wing/structural de-icing. Just flicking a switch does not operate the de-icing equipment, only the air file can do that and the old air file had wing-deicing set to "off".

I found that out when flying the 1960's "ops procedure" DC-4. Not long after encountering icing conditions, it fell from the sky despite having all the anti ice switches in the "on" position. That has now been corrected.